The Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic, abbreviated as the Ukrainian SSR, UkrSSR, UkSSR and also known as Soviet Ukraine or just Ukraine, was one of the constituent republics of the Soviet Union from
Bolshevik commissars in Ukraine (1919)
Soviet Russia and Soviet Ukraine in 1921
Starving children during the 1921-1923 famine in Ukraine
Trial of alleged members of the "Union for the Freedom of Ukraine" in Kharkiv, 1930
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Ukraine is a country in Eastern Europe. It is the second-largest country in Europe after Russia, which borders it to the east and northeast. Ukraine also borders Belarus to the north; Poland and Slova
Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic
…in foreign affairs. Upon the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991, Ukraine declared independence and became the present-day independent state of Ukraine. The republic's borders changed many times, with a general trend toward acquiring lands with ethnic Ukrainian population majority, and losing lands…
Early Indo-European migrations from the Pontic steppes of present-day Ukraine and Russia
The furthest extent of Kievan Rus', 1054–1132
Hetman Bohdan Khmelnytsky established an independent Cossack state after the 1648 uprising against Poland
Polish troops enter Kyiv in May 1920 during the Polish–Soviet War. Following the Peace of Riga signed on 18 March 1921, Poland took control of modern-day western Ukraine while Soviets took control of eastern and central Ukraine